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Charlotte Greenwood: The Life and Career of the Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio and Film by Grant Hayter-Menzies, 2007-04-18 Jack Benny: Comedian, Vaudeville, Radio programming, Comic timing, Situation comedy, Zeppo Marx, Mary Livingstone, Irving Thalberg, Orpheum Theatre (Los ... California), The Hollywood Revue of 1929 Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle: A History of Performances by Hollywood Notables by Eric L. Flom, 2009-04-13

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21. Podcast.net - The Podcast Directory
    vaudeville Fun Guiseppi and Ian make balloon animals! Peeper radio theatre The Penultimate radio Comedy, is produced by a bunch of guys in New York  
    http://www.podcast.net/show/38689

22. Canadian Journal Of Communication - Vol. 25, No. 4 (2000)
    The entertainment provinces the book considers include theatre, minstrelsy, the concert saloon, vaudeville, movies, radio, and television.  
    http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewarticle.php?id=607&layout=html

23. RKO Bushwick
    ran dozens of theaters and held various radio and television stations as well. The sign says, in part. Bushwick theatre. High Class vaudeville ?  
    http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET SCENES/RKO Bushwick/RKO.html
    
    Extractions: HOME LAMPS ADS TROLLEYS ... NECROLOGY When you get off the El at the Gates Avenue station and Broadway, you have only to walk up the street about a block or so to be transported back to a time when showbiz was really showbiz...when a night out meant putting on a shirt and tie or a dress...a time when entertainment meant more than just a movie and an overpriced candy bar. That's because the proud old RKO Bushwick Theatre is still standing at the corner of Broadway and Howard. Forgotten Fan Dan Reynolds sent me this image of the Bushwick in 1933 (right) Benjamin Franklin Keith was creator of the vaudeville circuit, opening a number of theaters for vaudeville artists beginning in the 1880s, and though he died in 1914, B.F. Keith theaters thrived for years afterwards, with the B.F. Keith circuit booking vaudeville acts regularly into hundreds of theaters by the 1920s. For years after that, the RKO organization ran dozens of theaters and held various radio and television stations as well. Vaudeville was the pre-eminent form of American show business entertainment from the late 1800s to the motion picture era began in earnest in the early 1920s. Comics, singers, dancers and plays all shared the same stage in a variety show that survived in show buisness until the early 1970s, when it was finally displaced from network television. For more on vaudeville and its influences and descendants, here's a vaudeville website Conveniently

24. Radio Links Database: Search Results.
    Focus on the Family radio theatre. http//www.radiotheatre.com/ As early stage and vaudeville was very much a part of pioneering radio, I have included  
    http://www.otr.com/cgi-bin/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&view_records=1&Site=*&n

25. American Variety Stage: Vaudeville And Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
    A link within this entry at forms of variety theatre explores vaudeville, joke books, material from Hope’s appearances in vaudeville, radio, film,  
    http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/186
    
    Extractions: Reviewed July 2004. Like a good vaudeville show, the Web site tries to present something for everyone. It succeeds in much of this effort, particularly with introductory essays and indexing that illuminate connections among variety theater, gender, urban life, and other important themes in American history. A variety show presents separate acts to form a complete bill of entertainment. This site, part of the Library of Congress American Memory project, opens with an introduction that links from the phrase "The American Variety Stage" to a valuable essay on the place of variety theater in American culture and society from 1870 to 1920. A link within this entry at "forms of variety theatre" explores vaudeville, burlesque, minstrelsy, musical comedy, and more. The core of the site is divided into six sections: Houdini, Theater Playbills and Programs, Sound Recordings, Motion Pictures, English Playscripts, and Yiddish Playscripts. A collection of teaching aids, Collection Connections, is also included. An additional feature, the Library of Congress exhibition "Bob Hope and American Variety," is listed less visibly on the home page. This is a shame: the objects and interpretive information displayed—scripts, joke books, material from Hope’s appearances in vaudeville, radio, film, and television—dramatically illuminate the relationship between one performer’s career and the larger evolution of show business. In a similar vein, the Houdini section offers a shorter, less ambitious exploration of one performer and his times through an introductory essay, photographs, and memorabilia.

26. AL JOLSON  A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY
    Asa becomes a stooge in a vaudeville act for which Eddie Leonard is the manager Jolson appears in the LUX radio theatre productions of ALEXANDER S  
    http://www.mikescaife.btinternet.co.uk/JolsonHistory.htm
    
    Extractions: AL JOLSON A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY FEATURING SALIENT HAPPENINGS DURING THE LIFE OF THE WORLDS CREATEST ENTERTAINER 1885 Born, Asa, on May 26th, in the village of Srednick, Russia, to Rabbi Morris Reuven Yoelson and Naiomi Yoelson. 1886 Rabbi Yoelson emigrates alone to America to better his position as a canter. 1888 Rabbi Yoelson is appointed canter of a small synagogue in Washington D.C. Mrs Yoelson and her four children sail for America from Odessa, Russia. Her children are two older daughters, a son, Harry, eight years old and Asa, her youngest son, three years old. 1896 Asa's mother dies. Asa begins his chronic running away from home. One of the members of the group of boys that he associates with is Bill Robinson - "Bojangles", who was to become one of the greats of show business. 1898 Spanish-American War. Asa attempts, at the age of 13, to join the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Regiment. He is adopted as a mascot. Asa joins the Waiter L. Main Circus Show in Harrisburg, Pa. Asa gets part as one of mob in a production of Israel Zangwill's "Children Of The Ghetto" until, after three performances, Rabbi Yoelson interferes. Eddie Leonard hears the youthful Asa sing and predicts a successful career for him. Asa becomes a stooge in a vaudeville act for which Eddie Leonard is the manager - Asa sits in the audience and encourages community singing. Asa becomes a stooge for Steve Martin's vaudeville act, singing in the balcony. During this time, Asa adopts the name of AL JOLSON.

27. File= WGPMS THEATER MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BIBLIOGRAPHIC
    vaudeville, legitimate stage, motion pictures, television, and radio. vaudeville was one of several precursors to musical theatre in America,  
    http://www.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.the

28. Old Time Radio Moments Of The Century (Elizabeth McLeod)
    oldtime friends from vaudeville will snipe back and forth in radio s The collapse of the Live theatre drives many of the top names of musical  
    http://members.aol.com/jeff1070/mcleod.html

29. VAUDEVILLE : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia Of Popular Music
    for any light entertainment; there was a vaudeville theatre in San Antonio TX in The most popular radio and screen comedy acts of the 20th century,  
    http://www.musicweb-international.com/encyclopaedia/v/V22.HTM

30. Scat Magazine - Issue 8
    However many fans they really have, Bakelite radio theatre has already achieved Sazerac and Peychaud take cues from past vaudeville, radio and jazz  
    http://www.scatmagazine.com/issues/issue0008.html
    
    Extractions: Scatistics Night Rail 3:10 am on April 18th was either late Saturday night for those who had the stamina to stay up drinking, or very early Sunday morning for those who had determined that some sleep was better than none. The crew that had been assigned to the peculiar task of wrapping large pieces of white butcher block paper around the top of each bus stop sign with a winding mass of masking tape and posting up the freshly printed laser copies that read “board street car in neutral ground” had come and gone. Apparently after several decades of planning, years of construction, months of training, and all the recent hoopla—any added explanation was deemed unnecessary. Heeding the sign’s call to action, a herd of people was amassing in the neutral ground at the corner of Salcedo and Canal. Mostly comprised of die-hard local fans and party opportunists, there was also a smattering of enterprising businessmen, politicians, RTA staff, avid streetcar buffs (one had ventured all the way from London), and a token Mid-City mom with two angelic, bright-eyed children in tow. The crowd was alternately chatting animatedly, suppressing yawns or craning to see down the tracks eager to catch the first glimpse of shiny red. Street traffic was minimal due to the hour, but the occasional stray cars that passed couldn’t resist slowing down to gape openly at the sudden show of support for mass transit.

31. Vaudeville
    The popularity of radio and motion pictures caused vaudeville s decline, but television brought Trends Events)(Virtual vaudeville) (American theatre)  
    http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0850551.html
    
    Extractions: google_ad_client = 'pub-1894504138907931'; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 240; google_ad_format = '120x240_as'; google_ad_type = 'text'; google_ad_channel =''; google_color_border = ['336699','B4D0DC','DFF2FD','B0E0E6']; google_color_bg = ['FFFFFF','ECF8FF','DFF2FD','FFFFFF']; google_color_link = ['0000FF','0000CC','0000CC','000000']; google_color_url = ['008000','008000','008000','336699']; google_color_text = ['000000','6F6F6F','000000','333333']; Encyclopedia vaudeville Pronunciation Key vaudeville , originally a light song, derived from the drinking and love songs formerly attributed to Olivier Basselin and called

32. SurfWax: News, Reviews And Articles On Vaudeville
    Never mind the rumours of a secret room at the vaudeville theatre at The Strand in Each rose from vaudeville to radio to the golden age of television .  
    http://news.surfwax.com/dramatheatre/files/Vaudeville.html
    
    Extractions: The show has been reduced to a kind of tragic vaudeville, Medea and Jason as Punch and Judy. Instead of getting to the dark heart of the tragedy, which is the tragedy of anyone who refuses to know himself while severely judging others, Preisser worries too much about preserving the play s classicism, which he demonstrates in the usual ways: through his actors over-enunciated dialogue and self-consciously noble bearing. (New Yorker) The Bing Bamboo Room, a loose collective of local talent, takes the new burlesque one step further or more accurately, one step further back to its beginnings in vaudeville, when striptease routines were part of a variety show format that included comedy, magic, song-and-dance and a wise-cracking emcee. On the last Monday of each month at Valentine's in Albany, the Bing Bamboo Room transforms the slouchy rock club into a chi-chi theater. (Albany Times Union)

33. Spotlight Theatre
    The Crucible, theatre Arts Productions, 2001. radio Gals, theatre Arts Productions, 2001 Spreading the News vaudeville Express Melodrama theatre 1989  
    http://www.theatreap.com/EMILY.html

34. Department Of Drama & Dance: Merry Wives Of Winsor
    In the repertory environment of the Civic theatre in Chesterfield in the for everything from minstrel shows and vaudeville to radio and television.  
    http://ase.tufts.edu/drama-dance/balch/Merry/default.htm
    
    Extractions: Poster Coming Soon The Cast Production Staff Program Notes Production Photos The Cast Rev. Hugh Evans Marty Keiser Mr. Shallow (a lawyer) Christopher Tadros Abraham Slender (his nephew) Jeremy Wang-Iverson Simple (his helper) Deane Madsen George Page Marc Aronson John Falstaff Andy Roth Pistol Gio Gaynor Nym Lizzie Stark Bardolph Graham Griffin Robin Jonathan Reynolds Anne Page Kristin Leahey Mrs. Alice Ford Rebecca Russell Mrs. Margaret Page Rachel Evans Jennifer Bien Mrs. Quickly (a housekeeper) Melissa Holman Jack Rugby (the Doctor’s assistant) Timothy Nelson Dr. Caius (a physician) David Medeiros Mr. Fenton (a Sargent) Matt Waterson Frank Ford Jesse Levey William Page Jonathan Reynolds Drew Shelton and TBA Production Staff Lighting Design Sound Design and Technical Direction Costume Design Stage Manager Dirk de Pagter Assistant Stage Manager Amanda Berkowitz Assistant Stage Manager Megan Kiefer Costumer Theater Manager Joanne Barnett Poster Design Costume Crew Light Board Sound Board Lighting Crew Running Crew "The Shakespeare Bug" by Anthony Cornish

35. Denmark - Culture - Theatre And Drama
    on form and inspired by Parisian theatre created the vaudeville charming, From the 1950s radio theatre obtained the technical opportunity of going  
    http://www.um.dk/Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap4/4-8.asp
    
    Extractions: As in the surrounding countries, pre-Christian rituals in Denmark presumably contained elements of acting, but nothing is known with certainty. Nor are there any written sources for mediaeval liturgical drama in the church, although murals and extant props point to the existence of such drama. The most elaborate Scandinavian hagiographic miracle play, on the subject of "Saint Knud Lavard", ( Ludus de Sancto Kanuto Duce ), was probably performed in the market square in Ringsted. It is known in a version from about 1500, but may well be based on earlier models. School Drama [top] There was school drama even in late Catholic times, but it was the Protestant school drama that came to constitute a significant movement of cultural policy in the market towns. The kings, too, were happy to be entertained by school drama with its biblical, moralising and satirical subjects. The texts were often translated from Latin and German, but a native Danish drama established itself with the Viborg clergyman Hieronymus Justesen Ranch as its most original talent. His Karrig Nidding (Nithing the Niggard) from about 1600 is a proper character comedy with traces of old carnival farce. However, at the beginning of the 17th century the church's views on the theatre changed in the wake of the Lutheran orthodoxy that was now the order of the day. It was argued that the theatre led people into sin and vice.

36. Powerhouse Museum | Roy Rene's Top Hat
    Although Roy Rene was Australia s most successful vaudeville and variety star for McCackie Mansion was broadcast live from a radio theatre before a  
    http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/opac/98-36-1.asp
    
    Extractions: high resolution version (requires java) Top hat, worn by Roy Rene, silk/ card/ felt, Woodrow Hats, England, 1947-1950. Sydney Opera House Trust Top hat, worn by Roy Rene, silk/card/felt, Woodrow Hats, England, 1947-1950 Worn, black silk top hat with Roy Rene's characteristic drop on one side. Stamped inside: By appointment to HM The King/ Woodrow Hats/ Silk plush. Woodrow Hats. 500 Harris Street Ultimo, PO Box K346 Haymarket, Sydney NSW 1238, Australia.

37. State Theatre New Brunswick New Jersey History
    The historic State theatre is a magnificently renovated 1921 vaudeville and The radio Corporation of America (RCA), which entered the motion picture  
    http://www.statetheatrenj.org/general_info_history.cfm
    
    Extractions: General Information Main Page Contact Us Directions Employment ... Seating Charts STATE THEATRE HISTORY The historic State Theatre is a magnificently renovated 1921 vaudeville and silent film palace that is today a premier center for the performing arts. The State Theatre offers something for everyone including: international orchestras, soulful jazz, Broadway musicals, world-class dance, stand-up comedy, nostalgic big bands, glorious opera, children's events, educational programs, world music and more. The long and colorful story of the State Theatre begins at the dawn of the roaring 20s ... "On Monday afternoon at two-thirty I will have both the honor and pleasure of presenting to the citizens of the City of New Brunswick and surrounding territory what I consider the finest theatre in the State." So declared theater manager Walter Reade in a quarter-page announcement in the Daily Home News December 20, 1921, as he proudly launched the State Theatre into the cultural life of central New Jersey. Designed by noted theater architect Thomas W. Lamb to offer both movies and live entertainment, "Reade's State Theatre" was one of the biggest, most lavish and modern theaters in the region.

38. All About Jewish Theatre - News
    Yiddish theatre on The Yiddish radio Project All that survives from the golden The initial goals of the Yiddish Theater and vaudeville Research Group  
    http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_list.aspx?articleGroupID=57

39. Theatre History Resources From Artslynx
    American vaudeville Museum Based in Boston but lots of resources on the web Mercury theatre On the Air - radio broadcasts actually but an amazing  
    http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/history.htm
    
    Extractions: Theatre History Resources Send more link suggestions in this category to Richard Finkelstein Who knows but one generation, always remains a child! - Norlin See also: Theatre Organizations Artslynx Exclusive Materials This Month in Theatre History Artslynx Season Planner Timelines of History Prop Use History ... Theatrehistory.com - Excellent resource! Atlantic Canada Theatre Loads of primary research materials relating to Canadian theatre history BRITISH DRAMA 1890 TO 1950 A CRITICAL HISTORY by Richard Farr Dietrich - The entire text of this book is online. Wonderful resource! Classicaltheatre.com This site includes many articles and essays on Shakespeare and other classical genres. Theatre History Sites on the WWW - LOADS of links! THEATRON- Theatre History in Europe: Architectural and Textual Resources Online Information Please Performing Arts Timeline Virtual Library of Theatre and Drama Very rich in resources for the Theatre researcher Musicals 101 - Great site. Lots of resources including a number that are history related.

40. The History Of Jim Crow
    culture after 1900, especially manifested in minstrel shows, the vaudeville theatre, songs and music, film and radio, and commercial advertising.  
    http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/lessonplans/hs_es_popular_culture.htm
    
    Extractions: Ronald L. F. Davis, Ph. D. The onset of Jim Crow laws and customs rested upon the racist characterization of black people as culturally, personally, and biologically inferior. This image functioned as the racial bedrock of American popular culture after 1900, especially manifested in minstrel shows, the vaudeville theatre, songs and music, film and radio, and commercial advertising. So pervasive was the racial demeaning of black people, and so accepted was it by white Americans throughout the nation, that blackness became synonymous with silliness, deprivation, and ignorance. Most white Americans believed that all Africans and their descendants were racially inferior to whites, and that their common inferiority tied them together wherever they might live in the modern world. In America, black people were portrayed as inferior almost from the time of their enslavement in the colonies in the 1620s. This racial characterization enabled white masters to justify slavery as something positive. Using racial stereotypes to justify the enslavement of blacks was especially pronounced after 1830 as white Southerners defended slavery against attacks by northern abolitionists. This historic view of blacks became deeply embedded in American popular culture with the emergence of the minstrel show in the 1840s. By 1900, the image of silly and exaggerated black men and women in comic routines was the mainstay of musical acts, songs, and skits that dominated the theatrical scene in America well into the twentieth century. (For further discussion of the relationship of Jim Crow and minstrel shows, see

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